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12.22.2000
A year ago today, Subterranean Homesick Alien was updated to the web. I would like to thank anyone who has contributed anything to this web site expanding it's archives. Thanks also goes to the other web site masters who have inspired me to create this web page and to actually keep it updated. Thanks to Radiohead for being a great subject to expand my knowledge on and Tripod for letting me have a place to share what I know. It's been a great year working on this web site and I look forward to some updates and changes in the future!
Note: Tripod's FTP server has been down on and off so it seems that my updates have a large time gap in between. Sorry.

Thanks FMA:
For those who missed it, the interview with Thom, Jonny, Colin and Ed that was aired on Lamacq's show (Radio 1) on the 20th is now available online at bbc.co.uk/radio1 in Real Audio format.

Chosen by editors and writers of Spin.com, 'Kid A' was chosen as the 8th album on Spin's 'Top 20 Albums of The Year'.

12.17.2000
Get the inside story on Radiohead's follow up to the chart-topping 'Kid A.' Enter here.

Australian National radio station, Triple J, have just announced on the
program "2000" that according to an online listener's poll, 'Kid A' is
the Album of the Year. Richard Kingsmill, the show's presenter, rated it
at #2 right behind The Delgados' 'The Great Eastern'. Other high rollers
include Coldplay, Muse, Powderfinger, Badly Drawn Boy and At the Drive
In. A complete listing is available here. [thanks Dasmonkey]

Radiohead's Thom Yorke has revealed that when the band confounded critics and went to Number One in the US and around the world with 'KID A' they felt they had turned into The Beatles.
After reeling off each of the countries in which the album took the top spot on its week of release - in so doing putting pay to the belief that they were not interested in any form of commercial success - Yorke described the buzz he got from what they achieved saying "We were the Beatles - for a week."
Speaking exclusively to Steve Lamacq for broadcast next Wednesday (December 20, 8pm GMT) on his BBC Radio 1 Evening Session the Radiohead frontman also described the feeling behind 'Kid A' as "the idea that we're giving birth to the life form that will inherit the earth after we destroy it in about 50 years". The idea is also related, he said, to his feelings about the new millennium, working through "apocalyptic thoughts" he couldn't get out of his head.
Joining Yorke were bassist Colin Greenwood and guitarists Jonny Greenwood and Ed O'Brien. Drummer Phil Selway was at the birth of his second child.
The band also expressed frustration at suggestions that they were trying to be difficult with 'Kid A'.
"When people said we were being difficult - that freaked me out actually," admitted Thom. "We just moved on - I mean, is writing and being creative and being in a band just supply and demand? It was only people in the press who said we were trying to piss people off. "
Ed added that they were haunted by the phrase "willfully perverse".
You can hear the rest of the interview, which finds the band relaxed and self-deprecating discussing why Ed thinks Asian Dub Foundation are the "best live band in the world", about Thom's inspiration for song writing and on solo albums in the future next week, December 20, 8pm BBC Radio 1.
The NME also brings you an exclusive interview with Colin and Ed in the Christmas double issue, in shops in London on December 19 and throughout the UK the following day.

Congratulations go to Phil and his wife!

Among other albums, Family.org gave 'Kid A' an interesting review. Read it here.

'Kid A' is ranked #2 in Time Magazine's year 2000 wrap-up issue. [thanks fma]

12.12.2000
Greenplastic.com has some screen shots of Thom, Colin, and Jonny at BBC Radio 1 during Mary Anne Hobbs midnight slot. Enter directly, here.

Here's the setlist:

Louise Armstrong - 'St. James Infirmary' (International)
Jega - 'Rigid Body Dynamics' (Planet Mu Records)
Anti-Pop Consortium - 'Rinseflow' (75 Ark)
The Fall - 'The Birmingham School of Business School' (Fontana)
Kraftwerk - 'Expo 2000' (EMI)
Kid Koala - 'Like Irregular Chickens' (Ninja Tunes)
Serge Silberman - 'Theme De L'Americain' (Somethin' Else)
Grain - 'Untitled' (Fat Cat Records)
Betty Davis - 'F.U.N.K.' (Island Records)
Sonic Youth - 'Tunic (Song For Karen)' (David Geffen Company)
The Santa Claus Orchestra - 'Silent Night' (Polydor)
Terra Thaemlitz - 'Selling (Soon I Will Be Free)' (Bottrop)
Cannonball Adderley Quintet - 'Hummin' (Capitol)
Christoph De Babalon - 'On THe Block (Meet Him)' (Fat Cat Records)
Jurassic 5 - 'Concrete Schoolyard' (Interscope Records)
Pixies - 'Bone Machine' (4AD)
Kool Keith - 'Extravagent Traveller' (Threshold Recordings)
Mantronix - 'Who Is He' (Warlock)
Duke Ellington - 'Come Sunday' (Phillips Realities)
Faust - 'Tapes' (White Label)
Hugh Le Caine - 'Sackbut String Quartet' (National Library Of Canada)
Lali Puna - 'Rapariga Da Banheira' (Hausmusik)
Autechre - 'Play' (Warp)
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - 'Les Stances A Sophia' (Universal)
Gabor Szabo - 'Walking On Nails' (Impulse)

12.11.2000
According to FollowMeAround.com, Thom, Jonny and Colin were on BBC's Radio 1 tonight playing a live DJ set. Radio 1 will post a tracklisting tomorrow at bbc.co.uk/radio1. It was also announced that the 5th LP will be titled 'Amnesiac'.

Also, there will be a Radiohead special called 'Meeting People Is Easy' on VH1 UK on December 14 at midnight featuring interviews, archive footage and live performances.

12.09.2000
Web masters submit your URL at SHA's updated Links page.

Spin with a grin has been updated with more questions and answers.

12.07.2000

Mostbeautifulman.com is hosting most beautiful man of the year contest and Jonny Greenwood is at number one so far with 195 votes. Vote here!
and..
B. Jones wrote to us saying that there is an ad running on US radio with Ed O'Brien promoting the use of condoms. Apparently "High and Dry" is going on in the background.

Select Magazine (December issue) has a two page article on the 5th album. [FMA]

12.06.2000
Radiohead's Kid A is the best album of the year, according to a poll of 40 UK music journalists.
The Oxford-based group beat controversial rapper Eminem and alternative act Primal Scream to the top of the chart, compiled for internet retailer Amazon.co.uk.
Critics taking part in the poll came from an eclectic range of publications including The Guardian, Time Out, NME, Q, Mojo, BBC Music, Melody Maker, Mixmag, Straight No Chaser and Opera Magazine.
Click here to see the Top 100 in full.
Read the rest here.

Interview with Thom Yorke, one of the People of The Year. Enter here.
Vote at RS's 2000 Reader's Poll here.

12.05.2000
The fifth LP is now completely finished. Here's some information on it : It will be a long and complete full length LP with either 11 or 12 tracks and will hopefully be released some time around April/May 2001. The LP will be made up of the tracks left over from the Kid A sessions which have recently been played live. That'll be balanced out with some of the less 'live' sounding tracks from the Kid A sessions, at least one older track, as well as quite a few tracks recorded since Kid A. There are no plans for blocking any single releases, so the record company may release a single preceding the album. Thom's quote from the recent Rolling Stone magazine interview : "It goes off in two ways. One is like very broken machinery. The other is really fat and dark". Artwork for the LP is currently being produced. Remember nothing has been officially confirmed yet, of course. Watch the official site for that. [ Thanks GP ]

Also from GP:
On the recent MTV show, Fake ID Club, actress Kirsten Dunst (Virgin Suicides, Interview With a Vampire) was spotted wearing one of the new Radiohead shirts. The announcer also claimed Dunst to be a "diehard Radiohead fan."

Among other items up for bidding, there is an autographed and framed OK COMPUTER poster at woxy.com. Remember, 100% of the money raised from the sale of these items goes to charity and will be split evenly between The Oxford Community Foundation and LINKS (Lonely Instruments For Needy Kids). Bid now as the auctions contain a certain time limit. Enter here.

More questions have been answered at Spin with a Grin.

Press:
Spin magazine named Radiohead 'Band of The Year' in their January 2001 issue.

12.02.2000
Subterranean Homesick Alien has added a "Radio" page to it's directory. From there, you can listen to endless random live songs by Radiohead. Thanks Cuttooth!

Nigel Godrich made a rather lengthy appearance on the official message board last night. Nigel was quick to point out that the third line in "Morning Bell" is "Light another candle... and" instead of the previously thought "Had a null encounter" or "Had enough of Canada" or the countless other interpretations.